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Thad Van Ry Thad Van Ry, a.k.a. ThaddeusQ

I have been programming in Paradox since... Oh wait, I've never programmed in Paradox. In fact the only programming (if you can call it that) I have done has been done using Visual Basic 4, Perl, Java Script, and shell scripting. I've been participating in the pnews groups here and there since they started. The only reason that I even know about these news groups is because I have worked with Liz since August of 1996.

I'm a network administrator and love the network side of things a lot more than the programming side. I love to look at code and try to figure out what it is doing and why, but coming up with code on my own just isn't my style.

Growing up, my family didn't have a computer. When I was 15 I got my very own Atari 800! That would have to satisfy any curiosity I had for computers for the next 7 years. In 1991, I left for Switzerland for a two year mission for my church. I learned to speak fluent German. (At least as fluent as you can in Switzerland.) In early 1994, I had been married for 9 months and decided it was time to attend college. My wife and I decided that we needed to buy a computer for me to type papers and such for school. We went looking for computers based on her knowledge. We ended up buying a 486/33. It also had a 14.4 modem which got me hooked on dialing in to a local BBS. (This was before the WWW.) Within 6 months, I had outgrown this computer and wanted more. This was the beginning of my addiction. I've been looking for a better fix ever since.

My second semester in school, I took a beginning network class. From there, I ended up taking classes in NetWare and UNIX. I loved the class on UNIX System V release 4. I wanted to play with UNIX even more. This made me look into Linux. I've been playing with different distributions of Linux since then. Some of the early distros I played with were RedHat 5.0 and Caldera OpenLinux. I've since had experience with Sun Solaris. I've obtained my CNE, GroupWise CNA, and Sun Certified System Administrator.

My wife and I are the proud parents of seven children. I'm currently a member of our City Council and love being involved in local politics. I have no aspirations of being elected to any state or federal office. If you'd like to contribute to my re-election campaign, let me know. <g>


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